[Air-l] My first survey

[Eero Tarik]

Dear AIR people,

to get a break from all the theory and assignments I have decided to 
create my first Internet Research project, an online survey.

This project has nothing to do with the units I am presently studying, 
but I thought it would be a useful break to do something practical.
It is my first experience using php (I had to give myself a crash 24 
hour course in php code), so for those who are experts in this area 
there are still behind the scenes issues I am trying to work out - like 
security and to prevent people using the survey from outside my domain. 
According to my web hosts I am on a Linux server and therefore couldnt 
use an Access database nor could I use MySQL without coughing up more 
money. As a result of these limitations I have chosen to send the data 
by email to myself as well as loading it into a text file on my server 
and this is then loaded into a spreadsheet for analysis.
A few hundred people have used it so far and the results are already 
interesting.
It has only been tested on Windows machines and using IE and Netscape so 
far. If any of you experience difficulties using other equipment and 
software I'd be happy to hear from you.

So if  you would care to attempt my first online research survey please 
feel free to give it a try and offer your opinions. And if you'd like to 
send all of your students along as well, the more the merrier :-)

the address is...
http://www.tarik.com.au/university/forms/LIUS.html

Whilst some might consider the question to be frivolous, to me, its 
important.

regards,

Eero Tarik
Adelaide